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I dont know if it was due to some twit trying to spam a lot and never succeeded but I am sure the other day there were still just under 170,000 members on chordie. Now today there is over 178,000. That's another 800 odd folk in just a few days. wow!!!
just keeps growing and growing
Ken
Unfortunately, many sites in the US have been disabled due to litigating copywrite infringement hearings. It's hard out here these days for a musician and all of their puppeteers to earn a living. I see it as an act of desperation. If I were lucky enough to 'hit the jackpot' and have succesful songs on the market I would see it as a tool of promotion for small time local scrub performers,such as myself, to have my music 'promoted' by eager up and comers.
southpaw i just noticed your quote ..i like that where is it from? original?
southpaw i just noticed your quote ..i like that where is it from? original?
It's from Clarence Darrow, writer of agnostic theological studies.
Spambots will flood a site and your membership can jump big time. I'm an admin. at a Asperger's/autism site and we went from about 1000 members to 2500 within the space of 3-4 months. I had gone on vacation for a week and I'd come home to 100-300 spambots over the course of 3-5 days. It took me 2 weeks to check each one and delete them. The forum owner upgraded to a more recent phpBB level and that took care of most of them. Now I'm down to 1-3 a month. At least until the spambots upgrade their technology! OY!
thanks Ozy for that,
Thankfully we do not get many spammers anymore after the website ownder done something to stop that.
That is not to say the increase in members were not spammers trying to spam but couldnt.
Cheers
Ken
thanks Ozy for that,
Thankfully we do not get many spammers anymore after the website ownder done something to stop that.
That is not to say the increase in members were not spammers trying to spam but couldnt.Cheers
Ken
I keep hoping and praying for the development of technology that will allow us to reverse spam the spambots and shut them down or destroy them. >: )
<sigh> I can dream can't I. hhhhhmmmmm, maybe I'll surprise my teacher and write a Blues song about spambots! lol
Blue security created a spam killer that worked by creating a DOS attack on the spammers to remove email addresses of some 500,000 of its users, But a group of spammers hit them with several DOS attacks so costly they shut it down.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/sec … =187900367
Damn, the arms race continues! : ( I found the most virulent and tenacious spambots came from Asia and eastern europe. Though one in particular was from Germany selling viagra. If they were from the US, I could usually keep them at bay by banning their email addresses and IP numbers. The more persistent ones had their usernames disallowed.
I hate spambots!
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